1905 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 49 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



Thursday, October 19tli, 1905. 



The Vice-President, Dr. Eletclier, took the chair at 2.30 o'clock, p. m. ; 

 there were about eighty persons present. The first business of the session 

 was the election of ofl&cers for the ensuing year, which resulted as shown on 

 page 2. 



Prof. Sherman, who has been recently appointed to the chair of Entomol- 

 ogy at Ihe Ontario Agricultural College, on being called upon, said that his 

 duties were confined to entomology in all its bearings and departments, now 

 that is was separated from the teaching of botany and other subjects. Among 

 other objects he had especially in view the formation of a representative col- 

 lection of the insects of all orders to be found in the Province of Ontario, *>nd 

 a catalogue giving dates, localities, etc. He intended that every specimen 

 should be properly labelled so as to give all necessary data regarding it, and 

 he exhibited some recent captures showing his method of labelling. He ex- 

 pected that the Entomological Society would help the College and the College 

 would certainly help the Society. 



The Chairman then read the annual address of the President and ex- 

 pressed the regret that was felt by all at the absence of Mr. Evans. 



ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. 



By John D. Evans, C.E., F.L.S., Trenton. 



It is with the utmost aiffidence that I presume to present to you this, the 

 President's Annual Address, on this auspicious occasion, being the first meet- 

 ing of the Society at the fountain-head of economic entomology for the Pro- 

 vince of Ontario, the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph. 



Owing to pressure of ofiicial duties in my professional capacity for some 

 months past, it has been quite impossible for me to prepare anything upon a 

 special subject bearing upon the all-absorbing, instructive and useful pursuit, 

 the study of insect life. I trust, therefore, you will kindly bear with me in 

 the few brief remarks I may have to make and pardon me for not providing 

 you with the intellectual treat you are usually regaled with upon like occa- 

 sions. 



We have met together to transact the (always) important duties attend- 

 ant upon the annual meeting, and we should heartily congratulate ourselves 

 upon having reached the 42nd annual gathering of the Society without a 

 break or misstep either in its annual meetings or publication of its magazine 

 for such a length of time. It is the oldest extant on this continent, I be- 

 lieve, save one, and is held in the highest esteem not only over the length and 

 breadth of this continent, but also in the remote parts of the Old "World. 

 And its publication (the monthly magazine) includes among its many con- 

 tributors most of the leading specialists from among our very helpful neigh- 

 bors across the border, as well as occasional ones from the other side of the 

 salt water. Nor should we omit to refer to the annual reports of this Society 

 to the Ontario Department of Agriculture, now numbering thirty-five, which 

 are replete with the most useful information regarding the life histories of 

 insects, the methods of dealing with the injurious ones, and preserving the 

 garden, orchard, and farm crops from their ravages. These reports are very 

 rpuch sought after, not only by those for whom they were especially prepared 

 (the sufPefers), but also by the entomologists and entomological societies the 

 world over. 



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